Three-day Intensive D&T Training For Non-Specialists June
Date and Time
Start Date: 23rd June 2025
Time: 09:30 - 16:30
Member Price: £517.00
Your Price: £690.00
Details
Three Full-days, face to face course in Banbury
Empowering Non-Specialists: Delivering Outstanding Design & Technology
Are you a secondary teacher stepping into the world of Design & Technology with little or no prior experience? This three-day practical course is tailored just for you!
Join us to build your confidence and develop the skills you need to plan, deliver, and monitor an engaging and balanced D&T curriculum that meets your school’s needs.
What to Expect:
- Understand the Big Picture: Explore the purpose, context, and value of Design & Technology in modern education.
- Master Key Content and Skills: Learn the essential elements of D&T, from creative problem-solving to hands-on practical tasks.
- Plan for Success: Discuss a broad and balanced curriculum that aligns with your school’s goals while inspiring students.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the requirements of the National Curriculum acknowledging these are a starting point to a wider curriculum provision.
- Develop a vision for D&T in your school.
- Planning to ensure progression, stretch and challenge.
- How to successfully fit D&T into a crowded curriculum.
- Discover and plan for the required resources to support the delivery of your departments' curriculum.
- Ensure your curriculum is fit for future learning and employment.
- Gain confidence in the use and application of specialised processes.
What You’ll Gain:
- A greater understanding of how D&T fits effectively within the school curriculum and the content that is required to deliver your curriculum.
- Acquire a knowledge of the design thinking that underpins the teaching of Design and Technology in the secondary school.
- Understand the key stages of secondary education and how to plan a 5 or 7 year D&T curriculum.
- Confidence in their long-term plans and sequencing of lessons.
- Increased understanding of the D&T content and how to deliver a context-based design curriculum.
- Confidence in the use of CAD, CAM and visual communication.
- Experience of working with a range of materials and processes.
Day 1 - 23rd June 2025
- D&T in context
- The National Curriculum for D&T
- Key stages of education
- Key content and learning: systems and processes
- Working with materials: timbers, polymers and CAD
Day 2 - 24th June 2025
- Design thinking
- Contextual approaches to design
- Managing NEA and theory content at exam level
- Working with materials: textiles, electronics and modelling materials
Day 3 - 25th June 2025
- Long, mid, and short-term curriculum planning
- Progression in learning
- Common processes, tools, and machinery
- Systems & Control and CAM
What to Bring:
We recommend bringing a laptop or portable device for the session.
Meet your Trainer
Paul Woodward – Curriculum Consultant
Paul has been teaching D&T for almost 30 years with most of those years as a Head of Creative Arts Faculties or as Head of D&T. Following a degree in 3D design, Paul initially trained for the Post 16 sector, so he has extensive experience of teaching A Level D&T, but he has taught the subject from KS2 onwards in a wide variety of schools ranging from Pupil Referral Units to Prestigious International Boarding schools. Paul’s MA is in Education specialising in Professional Development in Teaching and Learning which led to him working as a consultant, course designer and presenter for D&TA alongside his industry and teaching roles…
Read more about Paul
Before booking onto the course please read our terms and conditions and our cancellation policy.
Address
The Design and Technology Association, 11 Manor Park
off Jugglers Close
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX16 3TB
Prices include VAT at the appropriate rate where applicable.
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